May 07
Have a great summer, and hope that lots of you will get involved with BULA when we start up again in the fall!
Apr 26
BULA sponsors a Linguistics Tutoring Session
Apr 08
This is also a Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/228358810690841/
At 6:00pm we will go over BULA matters and decide on next year’s eboard. Come and get involved, even if you haven’t in the past! We’re always happy to see new faces.
At about 6:20pm the question and answer session with the faculty will begin and the professors will tackle whatever questions you’ve got for them.
See you then!
Nov 09
Our big event for the semester is coming up on Wednesday,
November 20, 2013 at 7 pm in KCB 101. Co-sponsored by BULA,
the undergraduate Classics Association, and the Linguistics program:
a talk by Prof. Sasha Nikolaev, “The Story of Writing: The Origins and
Development of Writing Systems.”
See more information and RSVP at
https://www.facebook.com/events/544705238943096/
See you there !
Oct 05
We’re on a roll… BULA will meet on October 17th at 7 PM in CAS 312 !
Come one, come all. Bring your linguistics friends.
Sep 26
October 2, 2013 @ 7 PM in CAS 223
(For more details, click on “Events” above.)
May 06
New officers have been elected for the coming year!
Congratulations to President Alex Williams, and to Vice President Chad Kringen, and Treasurer Ashley Hansberry. Jordan Caroompas will serve as President during the summer (with Alex taking over in the fall) and as Secretary thereafter.
Faculty advisor for next year will be Prof. Carol Neidle.
Have a terrific summer, and hope we’ll see lots of you at our events in the fall. Come back here for more information, and also check out our Facebook page for news between now and then:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boston-University-Linguistics-Association/142505152475244.
Mar 25
A lecture by Prof. Ricardo Otheguy.
Thursday, April 19 at 7:30 PM in KCB 101.
See details.
This is also a Facebook event.
Nov 28
November 30th from 1 to 1:50 pm in CAS 224. Prof. Mara Breen is coming to talk to Boston University about her work in Prosody. A professor at Mount Holyoke College. Her abstract is below: Implicit prosody in reading: Listening to the little voice in our heads
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/136729799807354/
ABSTRACT: For over one hundred years, researchers have wondered about the nature of the inner voice during silent reading. One of the main questions that has concerned researchers is whether the inner voice serves a purpose during reading. That is, is the producing, or hearing, of words and phrases during reading simply epiphenomenal—a by-product of the fact that language has been spoken far longer than it has been written, or does it enhance the reader’s processing and understanding of the written word? In the current talk, I will present eye-tracking and event-related potential experiments designed to empirically explore the nature of this inner voice, commonly called implicit prosody. I will argue that implicit prosody plays a functional role during reading, in that it can direct the reader’s syntactic interpretation of sentences.
